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Senate Years of Service: 1993-
Party: Democrat
BOXER, Barbara, a Senator and a Representative from California; born Barbara Levy in
Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., November 11, 1940; attended public schools in
Brooklyn; graduated, Wingate High School 1958; B.A., Brooklyn College 1962;
stockbroker 1962-1965; newspaper editor 1972-1974; congressional aide
1974-1976; elected member, Board of Supervisors, Marin County, Calif.
1976-1982; delegate, California State Democratic convention 1983; elected as a
Democrat to the Ninety-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1983-January 3, 1993); was not a candidate for reelection to the House of
Representatives in 1992; elected to the United States Senate in 1992; reelected
in 1998, 2004, and again in 2010 for term ending January 3, 2017; chair,
Committee on Environment and Public Works (One Hundred Tenth to One Hundred
Thirteenth Congresses), Select Committee on Ethics (One Hundred Tenth to One
Hundred Thirteenth Congresses).
Bibliography”Barbara Boxer,” in
Women in Congress, 1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of
the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History &
Preservation, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington, D.C.: Government
Printing Office, 2006.
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